🐿️ 2024 Go Developer Survey: 5 Interesting Facts

Tom Smykowski
4 min readMay 8, 2024

AI dominated these year’s survey, however the results show the condition, goals and customs of the Gopher tribe

The Go team holds an annual survey to learn more about the developers using Go language in their programming career.

This year’s survey comes with some surprising results. Here they are:

1. Go Developers Mostly Use Linux

In an ongoing debate what operating system is the most popular among programmers we have a new argument. The Go programmers don’t use MacOS most, they don’t use Windows most often. They use Linux. That is surprising taking into account StackOverflow surveys across all developers indicate Windows. Some people strongly believe it’s Mac. But only few talk about Linux. . It occurs programing land is more diverse than that and Linux has it’s fanbase among Go developers.

2. Go Team Is Really Interested In AI

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.